IRNA - Iran held nationwide university entrance exam, called Konkour, for the current academic year on Wednesday morning with strict protective protocols due to coronavirus pandemic. Today, 113,732 individuals are competing for seats in national art universities across the country. On August 20, 21 and 22, other individuals are to compete to ...

Financial Tribune - University students-to-be have just selected their major of choice after sitting for the so-called Concours, the nationwide entrance exam, last month. The upcoming new academic year in Iran starts Sept. 23. Concours, originally a French word for contest or competition, in Iran refers to a standardized test used as a yardstick ...

Tehran Times An online system has been launched to assess the students personality from different aspects to help them discover the right career path and make better decisions when choosing a field of study before the university entrance exam (Konkur), director for association of educational psychology has said. The Iranian university entrance ...

Tasnim | Mahmood Hosseini: Students in Iran sat for the multiple choice 'Konkour' exams on Thu. to gain admission to higher education in top tier universities across the country. The entrance exams are held every year in June or July in the three main groups of mathematical sciences, experimental sciences, and human sciences and two other groups of ...

MNA Member of Education and Research Committee of Iranian Parliament Mahmoud Sadeghi said Iran university entrance exam will be postponed because of the requests of students who are in flood-affected areas. Sadeghi said that Iran university entrance exam will be postponed due the request of students who have been affected in the flood-hit areas....

Al-Monitor | Rohollah Faghihi: Mohammad Bathaei, Irans controversial education minister, can finally claim some victory in gathering bipartisan support for his campaign against the countrys educational book publishers. During his two years in office, the 55-year-old former teacher has managed to ban supplementary books from schools, claiming that they ...

Iran Front Page - IFP has taken a look at the front pages of Iranian newspapers on Saturday, January 5, 2019, and picked headlines from 10 of them. IFP has simply translated the headlines and does not vouch for their accuracy. Almost all papers today covered a decision by the Education Ministry to take the first step in the path of getting rid of ...